Following our previous post about a nice hidden tip for catkin-tools, here’s another one.
When finishes compilation, `catkin build` shows a pop-up window at the top-right on your screen (if you’re on Ubuntu Linux), which indicates `Build Finished` or `Build Failed`. This is nice in that you can work on another windows without payting attention to catkin’s progress. Caveat is, though, that “Finished” and “Failed” aren’t that obviously differentiating whatsoever.
With the newer version of catkin-tools, 0.4.3 or higher, the window pops up with a distinguishable colors; Green for success and red for failure.
This little but significantly effective change is done by our TORK associates again. The change was made swiftly and neatly as it has always been in the opensource software community.
